• The Rocket won three Cy Youngs and an MVP with the Red Sox when he pitched for them from 1984 to 1996. But he is widely despised by much of Red Sox Nation for reasons detailed here and here. (The headline in that first link: "Is Roger Clemens the Antichrist?")

• Because of his suspected use of PEDs, detailed in the Mitchell Report and in federal court, he has fallen fall short of election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in his two years of eligibility.